Fuel Zone (School Meals)

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Welcome to the Fuel Zone

The Catering and Facilities Management team cater for more than 300 education establishments across Glasgow, serving up around 37,000 healthy and nutritionally balanced lunches each day.

Since its introduction, the Fuel Zone brand has transformed school catering, focusing on creating a bright, informal and encouraging atmosphere in which pupils can enjoy their lunch.

A new menu is designed each year following consultations with pupils, parents, teachers and the catering teams based in the schools. The Fuel Zone team ensure the new menus comply with the Schools Health Promotion and Nutrition (Scotland) Act 2007 and Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020.

Glasgow's school meals have won numerous prestigious awards including two EDUcatering awards for Marketing and Innovation and most recently, the Healthy Living Innovation Award at the 2022 Scottish School Food Awards.

Glasgow has also achieved the bronze level Food for Life Served Here Award for the past three years. This is a nationally recognised mark of food quality for school meals - accredited by Soil Association Scotland - which positively impact pupils, kitchen teams and the local economy.

In line with the Food for Life Served Here awarding criteria, all meals served in Glasgow primary schools and early years venues meet the 13 standards associated with the bronze award. These include being free from trans fats and additives, the use of free-range eggs and welfare accredited meat, and they utilise ingredients from sustainable and ethical sources. At least 75% of dishes served in the Fuel Zone are freshly prepared using unprocessed ingredients.

Latest News

Festive Feast 2024

• Our annual three-course Christmas lunch will be served up in primary and secondary schools across the city between the 9th-13th December 2024. Your child's school will let you know what date it will be available.

Glasgow Gains Bronze for Early Years:

• Glasgow has recently renewed its Food For Life Served Here Bronze Award for yet another year! This year, we have added all of our early years venues to our certified sites. Read more here.

Primary School Menus 2024/25

• Primary/ASL Menu 2024/25 (PDF) [832KB] (opens new window)
• Primary/ASL Halal Menu 2024/25 (PDF) [832KB] (opens new window)

Secondary School Menus 2024/25

• Secondary/ASL Menu 2024/25 (PDF) [645KB] (opens new window)
• Secondary/ASL Halal Menu 2024/25 (PDF) [644KB] (opens new window)

Primary Schools

Primary Schools provide Fuel Zone 123 Choices menu, a menu designed after extensive consultations with pupils, parents, and teachers, and one which also complies with the Schools Health Promotion and Nutrition (Scotland) Act 2007.

All school meals for pupils in primary one, two, three, four and five are free.  Parents will save £9.50 per week and their child will enjoy a tasty three-course lunchtime meal served with water or milk.  For pupils in primary six to seven, lunch costs just £1.90.

In Glasgow primary schools, free milk is available to all pupils at lunchtime.

We also offer a Big Breakfast initiative in primary schools, allowing parents to ensure their children have a healthy breakfast, setting them up for the school day ahead.

Secondary Schools

Secondary Fuel Zone Choices allow schools to select the most appropriate food stations for their needs and preferences. We offer a wide range of healthy menu options, and a great choice of vegetarian and halal food. 

For just £2.10, pupils can select a main item, a yogurt, milk/water, and can fill up on homemade soup, bread, fruit and vegetables. 

Between our Fuel Zones, cafes, and external food huts, Glasgow school children have an extensive choice of lunch options, all of which are healthy and comply with the Schools Health Promotion and Nutrition (Scotland) Act 2007. 

Our initiatives are all focussed around keeping children nourished as well as safe and within school grounds. We offer a competitive alternative to fast-food outlets and encourage pupils to eat healthier, more filling meals.

ParentPay

ParentPay is the online payment service used in schools across Glasgow. To login, click here or go to https://www.parentpay.com/.  

If your child attends primary school, you can pre-order their lunches in advance to allow us to prepare the correct quantities. 

If you have pre-ordered a school lunch and your child is no longer able to attend primary school that day, we would ask that you cancel your meal booking. 

Please note, if your child receives a medically referred diet, the facility to pre-select meal options on ParentPay will be unavailable. The meal provision will be managed directly by the catering team at your child's school based on their medical requirements. You should confirm whether your child requires a meal that day by clicking the 'meal required (as per previous request)' button.

Below are links to various video tutorials which can assist you in using and navigating the ParentPay system:

• How to activate your parent account
• How to book a meal - please note, you can select multiple days' meals before confirming booking, this does not need to be done on a daily basis.
• How to cancel a booking

For more information please visit our Parentpay webpage.

Big Breakfast

Glasgow City Council primary school pupils can attend the breakfast service available every school day.

Big Breakfast operates in each of Glasgow's primary schools and offers every primary school pupil a nutritional and healthy breakfast prior to the start of the school day.

For those not currently entitled to a free school meal, a charge of £2 per day is made. For siblings, the oldest child pays £2 and subsequent children pay £1.

• 6000 breakfasts served daily
• 1.3 million breakfasts served each year
• In some schools over 100 pupils attend
• Pupils have a choice of cereal
• Toast with spread and/or preserve
• Fruit

The service is supervised and is safe and friendly.

Food for Life

Food for Life Scotland are the awarding body of the Food for Life Served Here (FFLSH) award. The award is given for serving up healthy school meals that have no negative impact on the environment and are good for the local economy and wider community. This is certified at three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Glasgow City Council has, for the third consecutive year, been awarded the Food for Life Served Here Bronze award for its efforts in serving up fresh, local and sustainable school meals to pupils across its 141 primary schools and 112 early years sites. 

You can read more about Glasgow's Food for Life journey here.

The Bronze Award Food for Life standards can be seen below: 

Watch Glasgow's Food for Life journey below:

Related Content

Documents

• Medical Diet Leaflet (PDF) [1MB] (opens new window)
• Food in Early Years Establishments (PDF) [879KB]